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Current Research Projects  :: Health Services Research
 
Project Title: Measuring the Costs of Language Barriers in Health Care
Project PI: Elizabeth Jacobs, MD, MPAA
Co-investigators: Laura Sadowski, MD, MPH
Description: An effectiveness trial of providing daily, on-site spanish medical interpreters during the hospitalization of spanish speaking patients. Outcomes: Health, length of stay, procedures, and patient satisfaction. Follow-up period of 3 months.
Sponsor: COSMOS Corporation, Bethesda, MD
Contact Information: E. Jacobs
Project Duration: Start date:  07/15/2004  End date: 12/31/2005
Status: Current
 
 
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